# Harghita: places, data and stories

Explore Harghita through projects about its places and county-level data. Then choose a town for its own profile.

- Projects covering this county (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/county/harghita/#proiecte)

- Towns and communes (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/county/harghita/#localitati)

- Compare two places (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/compare-places/)

- Download a county chart (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/reusable-charts/?county=harghita)

## What you can explore here

- Everyone goes to Viscri and Biertan. There are 160 more fortified churches, and at most of them you phone for the key. (https://mariuscomper.uk/biserici-fortificate/en/)

A map of Transylvania's 162 fortified churches includes the seven UNESCO villages, heritage class, published opening hours, keyholder contact and damaged buildings.

- The Empty House — 1 in 4 Dwellings Stands Empty (https://mariuscomper.uk/casele-goale/en/)

The 2021 Census counts 2.53 million unoccupied dwellings — 25.5% of the housing stock. In Mehedinți 36.3% are empty. County map, breakdown and why the rural empty stock does not solve city rents.

- Bicaz Gorge: Six, Seven or Eight Kilometres? (https://mariuscomper.uk/cheile-bicazului/en/)

Six, seven and a half or eight kilometres of gorge, depending on how you measure. Fly over the real valley, in 3D, and see how the Bicaz river cut the mountain in two: four sectors, walls over three hundred metres, and an incision machine you drive with time. In Romanian and English.

- The night a lake was born (https://mariuscomper.uk/lacul-rosu/en/)

In the summer of 1837, a slope of Mount Ghilcoș slid across the Bicaz valley and created Red Lake, with its drowned fir forest. Replay the night of the slide on the real valley, in 3D, and weigh the evidence: the rains of 1837 or the earthquake of 1838? In Romanian and English.

- 100 places in Romania you won't find anywhere else in the world (https://mariuscomper.uk/o-suta-de-locuri-unice/en/)

An interactive bilingual atlas of 100 singular places, natural anomalies, ice caves, archaic relics, and unique engineering in Romania with map and documented cards.

- Romania Salt Mines: Turda, Praid, Slanic or Cacica? Prices, Hours, Verdict (https://mariuscomper.uk/saline/en/)

Which Romanian salt mine is worth it? 2026 prices and hours for Turda, Praid, Slanic Prahova and Cacica, depth, temperature, what's inside each, and a verdict per traveler. Praid is temporarily closed.

- Șumuleu Ciuc: how many kilometres on foot to the Pentecost pilgrimage (https://mariuscomper.uk/sumuleu-csiksomlyo/en/)

From the western border to the valley that fills each Pentecost run 485.3 km of marked road — 20 days of walking. Type a town name: the page shows the road that remains, section by section.

- Romanian villages left without a school, 2013–2026 (https://mariuscomper.uk/trei-din-patru/en/)

Of 6,833 villages with a school on the Ministry of Education's 2013–14 list, 1,329 have none in 2025–26. A map of every village over 13 years, and why the official count of rural schools (−76%) does not mean as many schools closed.

- How old is your town? (https://mariuscomper.uk/varsta-localitatii/en/)

The median age of each of Romania’s 3,181 localities, computed from the registered population by single year of age (INS, POP107D), on a map with every real boundary. Search your locality, see how old it is against the country and the county, its age fingerprint in one hundred squares, its pyramid by sex and its path from 1992 to 2026. In 528 localities there are now more registered people aged 80 or over than children under 10; in 1992 there were 9.

## Places documented in the projects

- Vârghiș Gorges & Bat Sanctuary

- Dârjiu

- Dârjiu

- Red Lake

- Red Lake

- Saint Anne Lake

- Praid Salt Mine

- Șumuleu Ciuc

## What the county data measures

Measure | Value | Period and meaning

Median age of the population by domicile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/varsta-localitatii/en/) | 44 years | 2026Half the population registered by domicile is younger, half older.

Dwellings with no enumerated residents ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/casele-goale/en/) | 28.2% | 2021 censusOf conventional dwellings. This does not establish abandonment or availability.

Geocoded villages with a listed school structure ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/trei-din-patru/en/) | 140 | 2025-26Counts villages in the analysed dataset, not schools or pupils.

Periods and definitions differ. Each project explains its source, unit and data limitations.

## Choose your locality

România ta profiles bring together nine calculated facts about each locality, with links to their sources.

- Atid (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83785)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83785/)

- Avrămești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83847)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83847/)

- Băile Tușnad (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83428)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83428/)

- Bălan (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83464)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83464/)

- Bilbor (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83936)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83936/)

- Borsec (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83491)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83491/)

- Brădești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83151)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83151/)

- Căpâlnița (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83963)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83963/)

- Cârța (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84102)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84102/)

- Ciceu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86461)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86461/)

- Ciucsângeorgiu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83981)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83981/)

- Ciumani (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84086)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84086/)

- Corbu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84148)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84148/)

- Corund (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84175)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84175/)

- Cozmeni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86446)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86446/)

- Cristuru Secuiesc (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83525)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83525/)

- Dănești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84237)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84237/)

- Dârjiu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84380)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84380/)

- Dealu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84264)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84264/)

- Ditrău (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84344)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84344/)

- Feliceni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83197)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83197/)

- Frumoasa (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84415)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84415/)

- Gălăuțaș (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84460)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84460/)

- Gheorgheni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83561)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83561/)

- Joseni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84558)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84558/)

- Lăzarea (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84594)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84594/)

- Leliceni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86479)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86479/)

- Lueta (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84629)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84629/)

- Lunca de Jos (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84656)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84656/)

- Lunca de Sus (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84754)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84754/)

- Lupeni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84825)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84825/)

- Mădăraș (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86438)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86438/)

- Mărtiniș (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=84923)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/84923/)

- Merești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85056)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85056/)

- Miercurea Ciuc (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83320)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83320/)

- Mihăileni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85074)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85074/)

- Mugeni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85127)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85127/)

- Ocland (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85243)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85243/)

- Odorheiu Secuiesc (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83133)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83133/)

- Păuleni-Ciuc (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83375)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83375/)

- Plăieșii de Jos (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85289)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85289/)

- Porumbeni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86487)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86487/)

- Praid (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85341)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85341/)

- Racu (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86495)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86495/)

- Remetea (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85412)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85412/)

- Satu Mare (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86501)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86501/)

- Săcel (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85467)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85467/)

- Sărmaș (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85528)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85528/)

- Sâncrăieni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85680)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85680/)

- Sândominic (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85760)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85760/)

- Sânmartin (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85788)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85788/)

- Sânsimion (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85840)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85840/)

- Sântimbru (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86519)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86519/)

- Secuieni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85582)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85582/)

- Siculeni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85626)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85626/)

- Subcetate (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85877)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85877/)

- Suseni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85920)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85920/)

- Șimonești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=85984)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/85984/)

- Tomești (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86453)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86453/)

- Toplita (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83632)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83632/)

- Tulgheș (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86133)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86133/)

- Tușnad (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86188)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86188/)

- Ulieș (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86222)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86222/)

- Vărșag (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86311)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86311/)

- Vlăhița (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=83749)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/83749/)

- Voșlăbeni (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86339)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86339/)

- Zetea (https://mariuscomper.uk/en/places/?loc=86366)Locality profile ↗ (https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-ta/en/l/86366/)

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